Commander and Sheep

When commenting on the current political season, President Obama stated that candidates for the Republican nomination have a "casual" attitude when it comes to sending military men and women in harms way and claims (in part) that he hasn't started a war.  


Although technically true, Obama has been Commander and Chief for three years completing what was left undone by the preseeding administration just as President Truman did after the death of FDR and Johnson after Kennedy, oddly enough both Democrats.  It is important to note that all of the presidents since Truman (except Clinton big surprised) have served in some capacity in the armed forces either on active or reserve status. Only Obama and Clinton have never served and yet both pontificated their abilities to command troops under fire even though neither are qualified or experienced in military force of arms. 

It is not so much that some politician may have a casual attitude towards warfare, but that Obama is projecting a pretense that after just three years as CnC, of the largest, powerful and most professional military force yet to exists, he has somehow evolved into some type of warrior poet and is thus capable of concluding the operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Nothing could be further from the truth. Experts predict that less than two years after the last combat effective fore leaves both Afghanistan and Iraq, theses countries will fold like a cheap house of cards much like the government of South Vietnam did after the last American combat troops left that country in 1969, and we all know the blood-bath that followed.

After the SEALs popped and dropped Osama Bin Laden, President Obama presented to the world (and the American people) his prowess as the operational commander of this exercise, someone capable and experienced enough to command at the highest level some of the most experienced and effective professionals available in the US military arsenal. In reality Obama could not have held such a position since he is both unqualified and inexperience in combat operations of this magnitude.

What Obama did was give the  military the operational nod much like a customer at a fine restaurant tells a waiter what meal he wants prepared. Its the chief with years of dedicated experience that makes a five-star meal an experience to remember, not the water-boy who refills your glass.